Recommend me some fantasy novels!

[Rusty Bucket]

Did this a while ago with Sci-fi novels and got some great suggestions out of it, so I figured I'd do it for fantasy as well.

I have nothing to read. I've got enough books in my room to sink a damn battleship, but I'm in desperate need of more. So, if anyone has any fantasy books or series they love, please tell me. I'm not too fussy, I'll give most things a shot in the genre, so throw anything you want at me. Just as a pre-emptive strike, I've got the Malazan book of the fallen, A song of ice and fire and The wheel of time series. Obviously read LOTR as well.

Feel free to hijack this for discussion if you like, and thanks in advance.

 

[AboveUp]

The Farseer trilogy. Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest. Quite enjoyed that one.

Other than that I'd have to add Discworld because I'm a huge Terry Pratchett fan.

 

[Julianking93]

Grrr you beat me to making this thread.

OT, I'd say The Children of Hurin. It was JRR Tolkien's last book and it was pretty good.

 

[delet]

The Black Company novels.
10 books about a small band of mercenaries who grow armies to defeat innumerable odds. Think Lord of the Rings but with much less jewelry and singing.

Chances are I do a horrible job of explaining it so please, don't take my word for it but do look up the books, they truly are wonderful.

 

[Quad08]

George R. R. Martin - A Song of Fire and Ice Serise

R. A Salvatore - The Drizzt Do'Urden books (Icewind Dale Trilogy, The Dark Elf Trilogy, etc.)

 

[ethaninja]

Gotta love the Wheel of Time series. Anywho, I reckon read, Wizards First Rule and it's sequals. In my opinion (apart from LoTR), it's one of the BEST fantasy out there. Go nuts.

 

[Shanannara]

The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett go without saying.
Definitely, definitely, definitely the Wolfblade series by Jennifer Fallon. She is something of a genius when it comes to building tension and dramatic irony. I can't reccommend her highly enough.

 

[The_Healer]

The Farseer trilogy. Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest. Quite enjoyed that one.

Other than that I'd have to add Discworld because I'm a huge Terry Pratchett fan.

Damn that was my suggestion. As well as the other ones set in the same world by Robin Hobb, the liveship trader trilogy and the fools... something... trilogy.

Other than those, Lord of the Rings?

 

[Argtee]

Did this a while ago with Sci-fi novels and got some great suggestions out of it, so I figured I'd do it for fantasy as well.

I have nothing to read. I've got enough books in my room to sink a damn battleship, but I'm in desperate need of more. So, if anyone has any fantasy books or series they love, please tell me. I'm not too fussy, I'll give most things a shot in the genre, so throw anything you want at me. Just as a pre-emptive strike, I've got the Malazan book of the fallen, A song of ice and fire and
The wheel of time series. Obviously read LOTR as well.

Feel free to hijack this for discussion if you like, and thanks in advance.

I'm glad I know of someone else that have read those books.

You should read the "Drizzt Do'Urden" books. I've heard that they're really good.

 

[Rusty Bucket]

The Black Company novels.
10 books about a small band of mercenaries who grow armies to defeat innumerable odds. Think Lord of the Rings but with much less jewelry and singing.

Chances are I do a horrible job of explaining it so please, don't take my word for it but do look up the books, they truly are wonderful.

That's what they were called! I'd been meaning to pick these up, but couldn't for the life of me remember the name, so thankyou for that.

The explanation was great, I have actually always thought that Lord of the Rings had too much singing.

 

[berault]

Go with the king of Fantasy novels: Raymond E Feist.

His books are phenomenal, and there are already quite a lot in print, with more planned to come.

Here's his official website if you want to check it out: http://www.crydee.com/

 

[bleh002]

Did this a while ago with Sci-fi novels and got some great suggestions out of it, so I figured I'd do it for fantasy as well.

I have nothing to read. I've got enough books in my room to sink a damn battleship, but I'm in desperate need of more. So, if anyone has any fantasy books or series they love, please tell me. I'm not too fussy, I'll give most things a shot in the genre, so throw anything you want at me. Just as a pre-emptive strike, I've got the Malazan book of the fallen, A song of ice and fire and The wheel of time series. Obviously read LOTR as well.

Feel free to hijack this for discussion if you like, and thanks in advance.

Ok, so there go two of my suggestions.

How about
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Sword of Shadows series by J.A Jance (the fourth book is coming out sometime soon I hope)
Elantris and The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie
That's all I can think of for now, but I will post later after I take a look at my library.

Edited because The First Law is the name of the series, the individual books were listed by generic gamer below.

 

[SilentBobsThoughts]

Skullduggery Pleasant, it's epic!!

The underground world of the undead, magic, vampires and kick ass gods.
Google it, a film is in the works too!

 

[Rusty Bucket]

Gotta love the Wheel of Time series. Anywho, I reckon read, Wizards First Rule and it's sequals. In my opinion (apart from LoTR), it's one of the BEST fantasy out there. Go nuts.

Have you read the latest book in the Wheel of Time series? I thought it was a massive step up from the last few books, which had bored me to tears. A little disjointed perhaps, bu that's to be expected considering the whole dead author problem.

And thanks for the suggestion, I'll check those out.

 

[unoleian]

ALL of Feist's work is excellent, IMO, and I really enjoyed Goodkind's "Sword of Truth" series as well. Yes, they made a campy, almost decent TV show out of it, but the books actually have focus, and the story just demanded I see it through to the end.

Sarah Douglass' "Wayfarer Redemption" series isn't bad, either, even if "Deus ex Machina" must be her favorite toy. The first three are a very, very solid and enjoyable story with a solid world, the final three are an amazing desperate premise with a sudden and sorta phoned-in ending, but I enjoyed them none-the-less/

 

[Serioli]

Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks. (Be aware it is a bit harsh at the start).

I enjoyed 'Name of the Wind' by Patrick Rothfuss as well, though only the first one is published right now.

 

[michael_ab]

Dragonriders of pern, as well as anything from that world.
Kingdom of landover
Ill type more